{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2001/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2001/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/167",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981",
  "text": "After rule 90A, there shall be inserted the following new rule—\n“Records to be kept where warrant is endorsed for bail\n90B (1) Where a person is arrested and released on bail pursuant to a warrant endorsed for bail in accordance with section 117 of the Act of 1980, the person executing the warrant shall make a record stating the matters set out in paragraph (2) below.\n(2) Those matters are—\n(a) the name of the person arrested;\n(b) the offence or default with which the person arrested is charged and the reason for the arrest;\n(c) the fact that that person is to be released on bail;\n(d) the date, time and place at which that person is to appear before the court;\n(e) except in criminal proceedings, the amount if any in which that person is bound;\n(f) any other details which in the opinion of the person executing the warrant are relevant.\n(3) After making the record, the person executing the warrant shall—\n(a) sign the record;\n(b) invite the person arrested to sign the record;\n(c) if the person arrested refuses to sign the record, annotate the record to show the fact of that refusal;\n(d) make a copy of the record and give it to the person arrested;\n(e) send the original record to the justices' chief executive for the court which issued the warrant.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/167/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:06:39.543712+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}